Your Church Leadership
NOTE: Editing for 2025

Randy Winsand
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​Pastor

email: [email protected]

​Pastor Randy Winsand has served at Ascension since October 15, 2019. 
He is originally from Wisconsin and has worked as an electronic technician, sales manager, and as an administrator of an assisted living community prior to his calling into ministry.  Pastor Randy loves hearing personal stories and sharing a message of love, compassion,
and hope. He and his wife Alicia live
in Sun Lakes, AZ.  

Mary Todora
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​​Administrator 

email: 
​[email protected]

Mary is originally from Des Moines, Iowa, and has been employed at Ascension since 2017. She has attended Ascension since 2011. Throughout her career, Mary has worked in real estate, owned a small business, and studied nursing. She is married to Jason, who is retired from the Fire Department.

Livia Gho
Director of Music

​Born and raised in Singapore, Livia Gho is very much acquainted with the sounds from both the Eastern and Western world. A classically trained pianist, she is also proficient in voice and the Chinese zither (Zheng). Livia is a graduate of Indiana University’s (IU) Masters in Conducting program and received a Bachelor’s of Music (Composition) from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Dale Niehaus
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Organist

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Dale Niehaus has served on the music staff at Ascension since September 1991.  He is originally from south-central Illinois, growing up on a farm, and is a graduate of Carthage College, Kenosha, WI, majoring in Church Music.  He also works full-time in the insurance industry. Dale enjoys music (church, classical, and jazz), travel, the camaraderie of our Ascension choir and musicians, and our local sports teams.  He and his wife, Brenda, live in Scottsdale.

Church Council 

From left to right:
Jay Hertzog (President), Mary Kolbe (member), Marcia Beymer (member)

From left to right: 
​Scott Rehorn (member), Nancy Hurley (vice-president)